402: Talmudic Matthew — Lightly Salted
Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé examine one more perspective on the ideas of salt and light found in the Sermon on the Mount.BEMA 257: John — Wells and HusbandsBEMA 313: Parables — The Good Samaritan
1 Aug 202455min
401: Talmudic Matthew — Light
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings join Elle Grover Fricks to consider Jesus’s teaching on light through the lens of the Talmud.BEMA 94: Hope of the WorldBava Batra — Wikipedia1 Corinthians 3: Building a Temple — Reed Dent, Campus Christian FellowshipNumbers: The Wilderness Years, volume 4 of Covenant & Conversation by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
25 Jul 202450min
400: Talmudic Matthew — Salt
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks unearth a deeper meaning of salt through a Talmudic lens.“The Salt of the Land and the Light of the World” — BibleProject PodcastBEMA 248: Joy and Lot’s Untitled Wife
18 Jul 202438min
399: Talmudic Matthew — Household of God
Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé browse through the Beatitudes one by one.Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing by Søren KierkegaardLive Q&A with Josh Bossé (April 2024) — YouTube
11 Jul 20241h 36min
398: Talmudic Matthew — Blessing
Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Josh Bossé crack open the question of what a biblical blessing is.To Bless the Space Between Us by John O’DonohueEvery Moment Holy, Volume I by Douglas Kaine McKelveyEvery Moment Holy, Volume II by Douglas Kaine McKelvey
4 Jul 20241h 5min
397: Mitch Lavender — Respect and Dignity
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings are joined by Mitch Lavender, longtime BEMA listener and group facilitator, and now Lead Campus Minister in Cincinnati with Impact Campus Ministries, about his experiences with a community dealing with the challenges of diversity and how that can lead to transition with family, friends, and faith.A Church Called Tov by Scot McKnight and Laura BarringerAdditional audio production by Gus Simpson Special Guest: Mitch Lavender.
27 Jun 202459min
396: Talmudic Matthew — Desert and Sea
Brent Billings, Elle Grover Fricks, and Reed Dent revisit Matthew 4 with a Talmudic lens.BEMA 92: How to Bring Order Out of ChaosEthics Ratings of Nearly All Professions Down in U.S. — GallupScutching — WikipediaTractate Sanhedrin — Sefaria“Questions About Angels” (poem) by Billy CollinsGospel of Matthew Summary (Part 1) — BibleProjectGospel of Matthew Summary (Part 2) — BibleProject
20 Jun 20241h 17min
395: Talmudic Matthew — Jordan
Brent Billings and Elle Grover Fricks take a closer look at the work of John the Baptist.BEMA 91: Tavilah T'ShuvahBEMA 92: How to Bring Order Out of Chaos
13 Jun 202452min
